Garden Planning: Guidelines for Growing Legumes

Work toward homestead food self-sufficiency by developing a plan for growing legumes. Get an idea of how much space you'll need to plant to a given legumes crop in your garden using the chart below.

October/November 2012

By Cindy Conner

Once you know how many servings your family needs per year of legumes, use this chart to estimate how much space to dedicate to them in your garden. We’ve provided a range of yield estimates because yields will vary widely based on the climate, soil quality and other factors of your garden. For step-by-step instructions on how to apply the numbers in this chart, see “Plan How Much to Grow” in A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency.

Servings Per Pound: The number of servings were calculated using data from So Easy to Preserve, Bowes & Church’s Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, and The Book of Yields: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing.

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